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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

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Bird, a world-leader in the field, offers an original approach to key issues in philosophy. He discusses hot topics in metaphysics and the philosophy of science
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Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Alexander Bird
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-09 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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Nature's Metaphysics argues that a satisfactory philosophy of science requires a metaphysics that is based on the understanding that natural properties are esse
Laws and Lawmakers
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Pages: 277
Authors: Marc Lange
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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What distinguishes laws of nature from ordinary facts? What are the "lawmakers": the facts in virtue of which the laws are laws? How can laws be necessary, yet
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Metaphysics of Natural Complexes
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Justus Buchler
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During the past two decades Metaphysics of Natural Complexes has exerted a strong a growing influence on the continuing development of contemporary philosophy.